Post by Jaga on Sept 6, 2017 21:20:29 GMT -7
I hear it on and off in the newspapers and news - again. Now it looks that thousands of people, mainly women and children excape to Bangladesh from Burma - where they are hated for their faith.... and their traditions..... and Burma is a buddist country.
Even a famoud anri-government Nobel award winner does not symphatize with the Rohingya victims.
Why there is such a conflict? Pieter, do you know what are the reasons?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-rohingyas-exodus-from-burma-is-arduous--and-sometimes-lethal/2017/09/06/bcc24986-9271-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.9ab6f4133861
The Rohingya’s exodus from Burma is arduous — and sometimes lethal
RANGOON, Burma — More than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Burma over the past 10 days, carrying with them whatever they can on the perilous journey to Bangladesh and arriving hungry, injured and afraid, if they arrive at all.
The mass exodus of Rohingya began on Aug. 25, when members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a militant group, attacked dozens of police posts.
The number of displaced is expected to rise, and possibly double, in the coming days.
More than 400 people have been killed in the clashes, some of the worst fighting in decades in a state prone to religious and ethnic conflict. Burma’s government says 371 of the dead are Rohingya fighters, 15 are from the security forces and civil service, and 22 are civilians.
[How Burma’s Rohingya crisis went from bad to worse]
Much is in dispute in Rakhine state, where an estimated 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in uneasy relations with their Buddhist neighbors.
Rohingya activists and monitors say many of the dead are noncombatants and that massacres — including decapitations — have taken place. They also argue the death toll is much higher.
The government says Rohingya militants and supporters are burning their own homes, spreading fake news, and killing their own people, including informants.
“It is the terrorists who are cutting off heads, and this needs to be known by you and the rest of the world,” Burma’s national security adviser, Thaung Tun, said Wednesday at a news conference.
What is not in dispute is the epic migration unfolding.
“I’ve worked in many war zones. I’ve worked with refugees before. But the scale of this particular flow of refugees is highly distressing,” said Tejshree Thapa, senior South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Thapa witnessed the exodus in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on the border with Burma.
“I’ve spoken to people who have walked four or five days through mountains, across rivers,” she said. “It’s wave after wave. I mean, you stand at the border and it’s just family after family. It’s endless. You drive down one patch of road, you see thousands of people. You turn down another patch of road and see thousands.”
Even a famoud anri-government Nobel award winner does not symphatize with the Rohingya victims.
Why there is such a conflict? Pieter, do you know what are the reasons?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-rohingyas-exodus-from-burma-is-arduous--and-sometimes-lethal/2017/09/06/bcc24986-9271-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.9ab6f4133861
The Rohingya’s exodus from Burma is arduous — and sometimes lethal
RANGOON, Burma — More than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Burma over the past 10 days, carrying with them whatever they can on the perilous journey to Bangladesh and arriving hungry, injured and afraid, if they arrive at all.
The mass exodus of Rohingya began on Aug. 25, when members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a militant group, attacked dozens of police posts.
The number of displaced is expected to rise, and possibly double, in the coming days.
More than 400 people have been killed in the clashes, some of the worst fighting in decades in a state prone to religious and ethnic conflict. Burma’s government says 371 of the dead are Rohingya fighters, 15 are from the security forces and civil service, and 22 are civilians.
[How Burma’s Rohingya crisis went from bad to worse]
Much is in dispute in Rakhine state, where an estimated 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in uneasy relations with their Buddhist neighbors.
Rohingya activists and monitors say many of the dead are noncombatants and that massacres — including decapitations — have taken place. They also argue the death toll is much higher.
The government says Rohingya militants and supporters are burning their own homes, spreading fake news, and killing their own people, including informants.
“It is the terrorists who are cutting off heads, and this needs to be known by you and the rest of the world,” Burma’s national security adviser, Thaung Tun, said Wednesday at a news conference.
What is not in dispute is the epic migration unfolding.
“I’ve worked in many war zones. I’ve worked with refugees before. But the scale of this particular flow of refugees is highly distressing,” said Tejshree Thapa, senior South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
Thapa witnessed the exodus in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on the border with Burma.
“I’ve spoken to people who have walked four or five days through mountains, across rivers,” she said. “It’s wave after wave. I mean, you stand at the border and it’s just family after family. It’s endless. You drive down one patch of road, you see thousands of people. You turn down another patch of road and see thousands.”
